Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
Photograph of the inside of a tent, with a smallpox patient at the Saint John's Mission in Allakaket, Alaska. Visible in this ward are two pitchers, one on a stove, presumably for heating water, some hand towels above the patients head, on a shelf...
Title taken from caption on slide. "Fort Wainwright HHC 171st August 1967." A family in their yard after the 1967 flood. Clothes and other items are hanging to dry on clotheslines and the white picket fence. Mattresses and a pillow are drying...
Title taken from caption. "Yes - Russian GI's like 'pin-ups' too. (Who doesn't?) Here, even at two-thirty in the morning Sr. Sgt. Karnaoukh takes time out to show M/Sgt. Kostin his collection of 'pin-ups'. Photo by US Army Air Forces."
Title from accompanying notes. "Hat. Once on the glacier, Hat took over for Hiro as leader of the Japanese team." Man with book, sitting in tent among cooking and sleeping gear.
Title taken from caption. View of the bunkbeds in the sleeping area of the National Geographic expedition house in Kodiak, Alaska. At least two of the expedition members are sleeping in the bunks. Coats, hats, and gear for the expedition can be...
View of four members of the National Geographic expedition relaxing on the floor of one of their tents and reading. Photo taken in what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve during National Geographic Society expedition to...
Cyanotype photograph of of a tent with the flaps tied open showing the contents inside. Items inclue a mattress, an armless chair with print fabric, a stove, a bucket, and luggage. There are patches of snow outside the tent, and a pile of chopped...
Title taken from caption. Aleš Hrdlička lectures to expedition participants below deck on the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ariadne, en route from Unalaska to Nikolski. There are two bunks visible on the left. Photograph taken during the 1938...
Image appears identical to uaa-hmc-0166-b1-17-3-2. The caption for that image reads: "Detail of part 3-1. A close fold of limey beds with shales along axis. Fossils of Lot _ were obtained here in 1912. July 23, 1911." Image referenced in caption is...
Title taken from caption. Caption reads in its entirety: "Detail of part 3-1. A close fold of limey beds with shales along axis. Fossils of Lot _ were obtained here in 1912. July 23, 1911." Image referenced in caption is uaa-hmc-0166-b1-17-3-1.
This color slide depicts two greenhouses on Harold and Roxolana (Roxy) Pomeroy's homestead at Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, circa 1950-1959. The greenhouses are situated on the edge of a body of water, with trees and...
This photograph depicts Roxolana (Roxy) and Harold Pomeroy sitting on the bed inside their cabin at their homestead at Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, circa 1955. The photographer is unidentified.